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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.6.47.pr

Substitution for a Deceased Daughter and Pupillary Estate

Passage 4319 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses whether a substitution made for a daughter is effective over the pupil son's inheritance when the daughter dies before the son.

[SCAEUOLA libro secundo responsorum. ] §28.6.47.prQui habebat filium et filiam impuberes, instituto filio herede filiam exheredauit et, si filius intra pubertatem decessisset, filiam eidem substituit: sed filiae, si antequam nuberet decessisset, uxorem suam, item sororem suam substituit.
[SCAEUOLA, from his second book of Opinions.] A man who had a pupil son and daughter, having instituted the son as heir, disinherited the daughter and, if the son should die within the age of puberty, substituted the daughter for him; but for the daughter, if she should die before she married, he substituted his own wife and also his own sister.
quaero, cum filia impubes prior decesserit, deinde frater eius impubes, an filii hereditas ad uxorem et sororem testatoris iure substitutionis pertineat.
I ask, when the pupil daughter has died first, and then her pupil brother, whether the inheritance of the son belongs to the wife and sister of the testator by right of substitution.
respondi secundum ea quae proponerentur non pertinere.
I replied that, according to the facts proposed, it does not belong to them.

Notes

  1. 28.6.47.prfiliae — Dative case. It indicates the person for whom the substitutes are appointed (the daughter) in relation to the verb substituit. The accusatives uxorem suam and sororem suam are the persons substituted.
  2. 28.6.47.prnon pertinere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction depending on the main verb respondi. The subject accusative (hereditatem) is omitted as it is easily supplied from the context (the preceding fili(i) hereditas).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.6.47.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.6.47.pr

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